Nonlinear viscoelasticity of strain rate type: an overview

Strain Softening in Viscoelasticity of the Rate Type

Rate-type Elasticity and Viscoelasticity of an Erythrocyte Membrane

Nonlinear Phonology: An Overview

0. Introduction The last five or six years have seen a substantial change in the nature of research into phonological theory. This change has been marked by the development of several new theoretical frameworks, for which we can use the somewhat awkward and misleading term "nonlinear phonology". In this short essay, I hope to give an introduction to the various ideas underlying nonlinear phonol...

An Approach to Nonlinear Viscoelasticity via Metric Gradient Flows

We formulate quasistatic nonlinear finite-strain viscoelasticity of rate type as a gradient system. Our focus is on nonlinear dissipation functionals and distances that are related to metrics on weak diffeomorphisms and that ensure time-dependent frame indifference of the viscoelastic stress. In the multidimensional case we discuss which dissipation distances allow for the solution of the timei...

Nonlinear viscoelasticity of metastable complex fluids

– Many metastable complex fluids such as colloidal glasses and gels show distinct nonlinear viscoelasticity with increasing oscillatory-strain amplitude; the storage modulus decreases monotonically as the strain amplitude increases whereas the loss modulus has a distinct peak before it decreases at larger strains. We present a qualitative argument to explain this ubiquitous behavior and use mod...